First Principles Book Marketing

Elon Musk is a well-known proponent of first principles thinking. His best-known explanation of reasoning from first principles is in this interview with Kevin Rose. The basic idea is that you ignore basic assumptions as popular opinion. Instead of reasoning by analogy, which will lead you to make something slightly better, you get to the basic principles that makes something work and as a result you can make something new, different, better, and cheaper. This is how Musk was able to successf...